cheap pead boards with alot of room

hey guys, so im looking to start my own pedal board and was wondering where i should start, whats a good board with alot of room that isnt super expensive? i figured i would get the dunlop power brick and the planet waves cable kit to start as well. i dont need a hard case as i will probably get one later on from rondomusic.com. so, ideas?

^ i think only the fuel tank jr is isolated.but agreed on the principle.

also i'm not too fussed on planet waves cables (but they may have improved them since i got mine).

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I saw in a couple of pictures that on Bucketheads Les Paul (only some pictures) that his neck pickup is painted in white. Can anyone explain to me why he would do this, and if there are any pros and cons.

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The guy wears a KFC Bucket and a white mask during performances, and you're interested in the color of his pickup covers?

This. I did it and it works just fine. about 10 bucks for a proper sized board, and literally $1.00 for a roll of velcro-compatible material. painted the board, nailed it to a another scrap piece, drilled a handle onto it, heavy glued the material down. done.

For around $150 you can get the T-Rex Fuel Tank Chameleon or the Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2+. Really just depends on how many pedals you need to power.

I'm a big fan of the One Spot - $30 and you can power 8 pedals. If you have a noise gate in your chain, the One Spot should be fine. I never had any noise with it when I used to use it (I had an NS-2).

im a little worried about the one spot i guess. it looks pretty cheap and almost like it would blow up. but i could be wrong

Yeah, I think they would be much less popular if they blew up. It really is just simple and inexpensive, not exactly cheap/poorly made. Honestly, if it doesn't work out for you for whatever reason, then you lost $30. Not a huge deal. I'd at least try it.

Like I said, I owned one for a while without any issues, and I've never heard of any issues about it either. If you want to get something higher quality that's okay too, but the reason for doing that would be noise issues, not reliability issues.

Be sure to put some handles on your board or feet or something so you can pick it up easily.

A 2x4 piece of plywood will do just fine.

Also, as far as attaching velcro goes, I would put the rough side on the board itself and the soft side on your pedals. You may have to use the pedal on a different surface some day and the soft side is much less likely to scratch things up.

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What the hell is a G&L.

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Gay & Lesbian I think, the box smelled funnyGreg what did you send me??

pine board was wayyyy cheaper so i went with that. and thanks man ill do that im excitd to geT this thing going. after i get it built (which shouldnt take long) all i need is a one spot and them im ready to start my pedal collection

At that length, I would say whatever is cheap. They won't take as much abuse as a regular cable because they will pretty just sit where ever you hook them up. Honestly, I just found the cheapest 3 inchers I could on guitar center's site and bought a mega F&%k ton of 'em. Bought that, a Furman power strip(Got it because it had a fuse in it), and then I got my daisy chain connectors. I am even cheaper than most people here, I don't even use a one spot, I use a Roland microcube adapter to power my board. It puts out enough milliamps that I don't get any audible noise, and I saved thirty bucks on the one spot.

I'm just a kickin' and a gougin' in the mud and the blood and the beer.

Oh dude I wasn't saying get what I get. I was just showing that powering pedals isn't as big a deal as people make it out to be. Get the one spot, some cheap cables. And as far as the power strip, try to find one with a protective so that if there is a power surge, your one spot and pedals are safe.

I'm just a kickin' and a gougin' in the mud and the blood and the beer.

Yes, but if you just unplug your board when you're not using it its pointless. Technically speaking, everything in your house is at risk of a power surge. A bad one could even start a housefire in some cases... Its not like that's a common occurence.

Just buy the $30 Onespot kit and be done with it. I've used it for about 4 years now, with about 15 pedals, usually around 8 at a time, and never had a problem.

also, i have no clue if there is one. but do you guys know of a pedal that can bypass eveything at once? so say i was on the clean channel of my amp and had a dealy reverb chrous etc on. if i wanted to go to the lead channel without any effects would i have to click everything off manualy? or is there a pedal that bypasses everything?

Yeah TS don't worry about the power strip if you don't need it. I shouldn't have assumed you need a thousand plug ins like myself No like Tubetime said, get yourself the onespot kit with the daisychain cables (the little cable that has multiple ends to plug into your pedals) and you will be good to go.

I'm just a kickin' and a gougin' in the mud and the blood and the beer.

also, i have no clue if there is one. but do you guys know of a pedal that can bypass eveything at once? so say i was on the clean channel of my amp and had a dealy reverb chrous etc on. if i wanted to go to the lead channel without any effects would i have to click everything off manualy? or is there a pedal that bypasses everything?

You can do this with complex midi switching and relay switches, or with a true bypass loop, but neither of those solutions are really cheap or easy to set up. You pretty much have to do some amount of tapdancing when you use pedal based effects. It's a different story when you get into rack effects, but that's even more money and setup.

You run everything you want on your clean channel through it, then when you switch to the dirt channel you only have to hit this one extra switch to shut it all off. I guess it's not quite as expensive or complex as I made it out to be, but it's nearly $90 for a pedal that just switches... I guess you can decide if it's important enough to spend the cash on it.

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